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wrote about the petrodollar & Gulf sovereign capital, AI-powered warfare & the AI buildout, the Compute Axis & St. Augustine's City of God, Pax Silica & America's sabotage of the imperial architecture underwriting its technological supremacy
Edward Ongweso Jr
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Edward Ongweso Jr
@bigblackjacobin
co-host - @machinekillspod // The Tech Bubble - my tech newsletter // senior researcher - @SecurityContext // Luddite & decel // rep @ianbonaparte
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dante, Goethe, Homer, Tolstoy, Aristotle, Pushkin, Blake, Lermontov, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cellini, Thucydides, Tacitus, Montaigne, Virgil, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Cellini, Machiavelli, Melville, Milton, Conrad, Rimbaud and Hölderlin.- The premise of assassins creed is that aliens uplifted monkeys to be human slaves with mind control tech
- let me see his essayA teen genius with a 4.4 GPA and 1590 SAT Score—who was hired straight out of high school by Google for a Ph.D level Software Engineer position—was rejected by 16 out of 18 colleges including 5 UC Schools: Berkeley, Davis, UCLA, UCSD and UCSB. Now he’s suing for racial
00:00 - slop is slop!outside of midjourney, when people would think of “ai generated images” they would mostly think “slop” but that all changed with a chatgpt update and one guy’s post about sending ghiblified images to his wife
- at least once a week I laugh to myself thinking about how he got asked “how many genders are there” then replied “at least three” then when asked to name them said “don’t play with me”Remember when Biden said “listen here, Fat..” to that guy
- let him cookBiden expected to meet with Netanyahu next week, despite COVID diagnosis wgntv.com/israel-hamas-c…
- it is the closest human civilization has come to creating MordorI keep seeing people say they’d never go to Dubai but won’t say why. Why???
- yeah that’s called thinking brotherI want an AI product that inhabits my AirPods and continually mutters interesting things about the world around me, like an indefatigably burbling tour guide. "The San Mateo Bridge was built in about a year. When it opened on 2 March 1929, it stretched 7.1 miles, making it
- It’s great how we are just utterly and completely drowning in toxins in every sphere of our lives. Our environment, food, clothing, water, air, consumer products, homes, workplaces, buildings, this is great.Black plastic products—such as spatulas, sushi trays, and children’s toys—are regularly made from recycled electronic waste. Many of these products contain concerning levels of flame retardants—and they are leaching into our food, @zoeschlanger reports: theatln.tc/ZyySjeEF
- roommate is distraught over how much money he’s spending, turns out he’s been going on 2-3 dates every single day for months, refuses to stop
- get those fucking “studio ghibli” ChatGPT images off my timeline
